Is It Too Late? - Swan Queen AU

Chapter 20: The Epilogue

A/N: Thank you all for tackling this journey with me. Here are some later scenes in the life of Regina and Emma. I hope you enjoy, and thank you for all of your support. 

"Emma Swan! Get your ass back here and clean this up! Henry!!" Regina squealed from the kitchen, brownie batter covering the floor and her apron. The blonde who was the cause of this mess had taken off in a dead sprint to the bathroom.

Regina growled, but a smile played on her lips as she walked towards the downstairs bathroom. She softly pulled at the door, laughing mentally at the idiocy of the blonde she was currently in search of. The handle was locked, but the door had not closed all of the way. She ripped open the door, seeing a figure hidden behind a shower curtain. The figure grew stiff as footsteps neared the shower/bath. "Emma Swan." a low voice called.

"Uhm, she-she isn't in here. It's just-" the shower curtain was slid to the side to reveal a brownie batter covered Emma, who met the messy Regina with a small smile.

"Oh? She isn't is she?" the darker haired of the two stepped into the shower, her hands taking Emma's as she drew closer, pressing the blonde against the tile wall. Regina's lips brushed against Emma's. "That's a shame. I guess I will have to go clean myself up on my own."

A soft, disappointed sigh left Emma's lips as she leaned forward towards her fiancee, falling off balance. Regina pulled away just before their lips met, and an evil smile found itself upon her countenance. "I'll be in the shower, alone, I guess."

And with that, Regina strolled from the downstairs bathroom, hips swaying from side to side in a teasing manner. "Don't keep me waiting, Miss Swan."

Emma straightened up and fumbled from inside the bathtub, wrestling the shower curtain from between her limbs. Quickly, she chased after the woman she had proposed to just months prior.

It had been a long time coming, their engagement, and no one in Storybrooke was surprised at the announcement. Of course, Leroy, the town drunk and gossip, had congratulated them first by buying them a round at The Rabbit Hole. David and Mary Margaret, more so the latter, had not stopped gushing over the relationship between the two women.

Henry had been more than ecstatic when Emma had asked him to go ring shopping with her, and of course, Regina though the elegant diamond had been the most beautiful ring.

The happiness the two had found themselves bundled up in flowed freely into those around them. Granny had rolled her eyes, telling them they were just as bad as they'd been in high school, but the two didn't mind one bit.

As Emma reached the door to the shared Master Bedroom, a smirk overcame her at the sound of the shower running.

After the brownie batter mess happened, and Regina ran after Emma, he had called out to them that he was heading to the stables nearby. He, too, had been covered in brownie batter from his future stepmother's shenanigans. Often times, the boy would run off to visit the stables where he and a one of the stable hands had become rather close. Henry learned to ride, a natural like his mother, and loved it.

The blonde had been lucky when beating the batter, the beater had been directed mostly towards the two on the other side of the counter rather than herself. Small splatters of the sweet mixture had been spattered over her cheeks and arms. She could not say the same for her fiancee. For the darker haired of the two had taken the brunt of the spray not half a second after telling the blonde to keep the mixer in the dough while it was on.

Emma could see the woman's tanned body through the glass door to the shower. Hastily and all too clumsily, Emma removed her own clothing and ducked within the hot stream.